Tag: India
Interfaith Abroad, Part 2: Privilege, Context, and Coming Home
Read Part I here. Travel gives you space to see new things, and learn to appreciate all the familiar things you take for granted. Travel grants the traveler a suspension of their own reality, a limina... Read More
Interfaith Abroad, Part 1: Private vs Public Life in India
It was evening in Mumbai and the windows to the Jesuit residence on the fifth floor of the Xavier Institute of Engineering were open to let in a cooling breeze. The sun had set and the last monsoon ra... Read More
It’s Time India Accept Responsibility for Its 1984 Sikh Genocide
Originally Published in TIME.com Thirty years later, the government stubbornly refuses to admit its fault in the religious massacre, despite enormous evidence to the contrary 1984 remains one of the d... Read More
The Struggle for Dalit Rights in South Asia
Have you ever had a theme assert itself over and over in a very short period of time, as if the universe was sending you cosmic hints to pay attention? In my case, the message right now involves socia... Read More
Lessons of the 1984 Sikh Massacre
This article was originally published in The Diplomat As millions around the globe continue to celebrate the election of India’s controversial new head of government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, m... Read More
Whistleblower Exposes India’s Murderous Cops
This review was originally published in Newsweek’s The Daily Beast In 1994, a Punjabi cop filed a lawsuit against his colleagues accusing them of the secret torture and killing of innocents. Now... Read More
Differences…Divinely Ordained?
After graduating from Texas A&M University in 2011, I promptly moved to India for my spiritual quest hoping that the thorough understanding of a new philosophy (Tartam) that incorporates the teach... Read More
Remembering the Massacre of Sikhs in June of 1984
Co-Written with Gunisha Kaur During the first week of June, Sikhs around the world commemorate a recent historical event: Operation Bluestar of 1984, a government-sanctioned military operation that re... Read More